theguruguys

lordskitch wrote:It never made sense to me to have the Bunch of Changelings#39;s really.. I mean, it's always fun to try and get one.. but the fact that there's usually a service outage due to excessive overload, and people wildly using bandwidth with no intention of buying anything else for the entire woot-off... It just makes good business sense to discontinue them (not to mention the service outage alone would get me fired where I work.)

They should just make it a lottery system for Bring Out Cadences. If you buy something during a woot off!, you are automatically entered into the drawing.

cguy

unknownwarrior33 wrote:Wow, there's been a whole lot of Rainbow Dashing these last couple days. I know some of it is just trolls, but beyond that...look, I was hoping for a Bunch of Changelings too, but that's not what this is about. Heck, when I first started on Woot that was just something they'd occasionally do as a gag, not what people specifically looked for.

No, the real issue for these people is that Woot was bought out by Amazon, and whenever a big company gets involved with something, people start hating it. Not because of any actual decline in the service, but because it's a big company.

unknownwarrior33

unlikely wrote:Or, in this case, because the prices aren't shockingly good any more, the goofy fun stuff that was goofy and fun (like ye olde random crap) is vanishing, the "one thing" theme is now "at least seven things but more like 15" and it's pretty much not the same site it was in any measurable way.

Again, not the end of the world - not even a reason to rage quit and delete your account or whatever. Just not as fun as it used to be.

I don't know, I think the prices are still quite good. As far as I've seen, just about everything sold in this woot-off is much cheaper than on Amazon. As for the Bunch of Changelings again, I was looking forward to it as well, but I don't think it was ever intended to be the main event. The only newish change that bothers me really is the lack of the daily podcast. But at least they released that best-of way back when.

bpr2

theoneill555 wrote:No, they don't glow in the dark and yes I still have a pair (one green and one gray) to send to you. They are sitting in a box on my bench. I will do my best to make it to the Post Office tomorrow.

theoneill555

Just and FYI- I was lucky enough to snag a couple of these monkeys at CES and to me, they seem softer and more stuffed than previous monkeys. The chest cavities actually seem to have cushioning around the voice box.

One of my new green ones is sitting on my bench at work and it just makes me happy

k4th3r1n3

The same people who created Power Puff Girls created MLP, so you would think it'd be entertaining. I wanted to see what the brony thing was all about and I loved the original MLP as a kid so I watched like 7 episodes. It's cute, but it's not funny. Maybe it gets better in later seasons?

k4th3r1n3

Also, I wish that the whiners would realize that complaining after every woot-off doesn't do anything. Besides the servers crashing, your incessant complaining about not getting a Bunch of Changelings when they were here didn't help them stick around.

unknownwarrior33

It was. He said he was more interested in early stages of development than working with a big company. I can see why someone might misunderstand it as him saying he was unhappy with what Amazon was doing with Woot, but honestly I don't think that was what he meant. And again, if it was, why would he wait two years?

pooflady

unknownwarrior33 wrote:It was. He said he was more interested in early stages of development than working with a big company. I can see why someone might misunderstand it as him saying he was unhappy with what Amazon was doing with Woot, but honestly I don't think that was what he meant. And again, if it was, why would he wait two years?

sinsemilla

No bag and they end it with what is one of the most boring screaming monkeys they have had.

Even the combined shipping is pissing me off at this point. Just the one day, regardless of if they have a wootoff. I bought some jerky in the first hours just hoping to get free shipping on something else that I liked. I finally saw another deal for me on the second day, which was less that 24 hours from my first purchase, but the extra $5 for shipping was a deal breaker at that point.

Woot, I love ya and have spent thousands of dollars on your deals, but I have a feeling that you grew too big and forgot about those customers who got you where you are now.

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